Do we want to do an opposite of this for characters that change gender the other way? As in female/male in japan but not in europe etc?

MagBas

12:42:13 AM Mar 21st 2011

"Note that despite the title, this applies to changes in either direction, not just male to female. Which country they're coming from or going to doesn't matter either."

Nezumi

10:21:50 AM Jul 7th 2011

As the one who actually added that part, I have to say that we should stick with that. Even without that addition, it was implicit in the trope text already, as it didn't specifically refer to male to female, but just sex change.

There was so much confusion about that point that I decided it needed to be explicitly stated, plus there's no particular reason to consider inversions or an inverted version of the trope when this one can work just fine for changes in either direction besides the name.

Can we not have Birdo as the page's picture? His/her gender is so ambiguous, ranging from "retconned" to "male but likes crossdressing" to "transwoman". I'd prefer something a little simpler. I'm sure Sailor Moon has an example or two.

DonaldthePotholer

05:37:06 PM Dec 22nd 2010

My personal take is that Birdo is a species, i.e. there's more than one, with some sort of stable (i.e. mixed) gender balance. Problem Solved. (The first pothole is intentional, the second is a wish.)

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